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the_other_sandy) wrote2014-10-31 11:25 pm
the_other_sandy) wrote2014-10-31 11:25 pm
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H50 Ep: Ho'oma'ike
This is the cold that never ends
It just goes on and on, my friend...
By the way, I finally made a post about last week's episode here if anybody is still interested.
Grover amused me mightily by passing up wearing a coat to go into the freezer while the Hawaiians all bundled up, especially since Hawaii looked to be having lovely trick-or-treating weather while we got snow today. Because this is Greater Chicagoland and that's how we roll.
I loved the scene with Steve and Danny at the beginning. Steve must've been really worried to go so far as to physically track down Danny when he couldn't reach Danny by phone. Danny is clearly not okay no matter what he says, but he's putting on a brave face for everybody, much like someone else we know.
It's in Danny's nature to feel responsible for what happened to Matt because he's the big brother and he's a caretaker personality, but ultimately Matt is responsible for his own poor life choices. The way he was going, it was just a matter of time before he got stuffed in a 50 gallon drum of consequences.
It pleases me that Ellie got her first dose of Steve/Danny banter. She might as well get used to it now if she wants to hang around with Steve.
It just goes on and on, my friend...
By the way, I finally made a post about last week's episode here if anybody is still interested.
Grover amused me mightily by passing up wearing a coat to go into the freezer while the Hawaiians all bundled up, especially since Hawaii looked to be having lovely trick-or-treating weather while we got snow today. Because this is Greater Chicagoland and that's how we roll.
I loved the scene with Steve and Danny at the beginning. Steve must've been really worried to go so far as to physically track down Danny when he couldn't reach Danny by phone. Danny is clearly not okay no matter what he says, but he's putting on a brave face for everybody, much like someone else we know.
It's in Danny's nature to feel responsible for what happened to Matt because he's the big brother and he's a caretaker personality, but ultimately Matt is responsible for his own poor life choices. The way he was going, it was just a matter of time before he got stuffed in a 50 gallon drum of consequences.
It pleases me that Ellie got her first dose of Steve/Danny banter. She might as well get used to it now if she wants to hang around with Steve.
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That's the thing I've noticed the most about this season--the apparent effort to fix things fans have been complaining about for a long time. Although why they waited so long to start is beyond me.
I think the actress has really got something of a cool spark, so I'd definitely like to see more of her
Ellie definitely strikes me as a slow-burn love interest, which makes a nice change from the instarelationships we've seen so far (I still want to know how Kono and Adam ever wound up together). She also seems a bit more mature than either Catherine or Lori.
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Maturity is definitely something about Ellie, yes, and the fact that she comes at Steve's history from the grassroots and isn't likely to ever fall into that stary-eyed SUPERSEAL!Worship (at least I hope not, we noticed how fast Grover got the kool-aid to drink after a couple of quips), and she's not tied to Steve in any kind of subordinate or military working relationship, also a big plus. However, I feel like her nuances toward him read more like a parental figure who indulges him on the one hand and whacks his fingers on the other. And it's not that I don't like that, just that it feels to me like the way they're setting up her character and dynamics with Steve and the team doesn't mesh with what they're clearly trying to lay down as a path for her in the future with the scenes they put them in, if that makes any sense. If you're going the friends-to-lovers route, let them have a friendship without the whole romantic subset-playdate shit first and then walk it up.
But I guess, you're absolutely right and that's just a terrible weakness of the creative team just putting cardboard love interests somewhere in the plot because they think that makes for proper window dressing (and I do appreciate it as another attempt to fix that, if imperfect).